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There is a quote by Marshall McLuhan that goes “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”. Technology is like negotiation between tools and digital users. Technology continues to offer opportunities. However, it slowly shapes our norms, behavior, way of thinking and personalities. The world is slowly transforming into a new digital globe. But the question is, are we all into this big change?  Can we survive adapting to new changes while half of our people are being left behind? Would there be a great wall that would hinder our connection among those people struggling to cope with the new normal? This digital divide has been one of the biggest challenges we continue to fight upon the birth of technology. Digital divide has been an issue in which socioeconomic background matter among individuals, social classes, business and even countries which has become a standard among these fields.

Nowadays when you hear the term piracy, the first place your mind goes may not be the bandits of the sea, stealing and plummeting ships as they see fit. Instead you may think about a very different type of piracy, one that lacks eye patch and peg legs, but involves an average citizen with an internet connection and a desire to listen to music. A large percentage of the consumer population would agree that stealing is illegal and that going into a store to take whatever you want is not something they would support. Why then is piracy such a common and alarmingly OK thing in today’s society? Almost 70% of consumers do not see a problem with piracy, and it has become such a common thing that by 2011 approximately 22% of all global internet bandwidth was used of online piracy. The main reasons consumers do not see a problem with piracy are due to the facts that it is so easy to hop online and download whatever you are looking for, and almost excessively expensive to do otherwise. The main arguments put forth against piracy is that it undermines and steals from the people who create the content being stolen. They argue that piracy has a negative effect on the economy by reducing sales in music/movie industries and many other facets.

Pirating/streaming music and movies is the preferred method of acquiring them in today’s society, and I believe that may very well result in the laws around piracy reflecting that. To ruin someones life with prison and debt from stealing 30 songs may be seen as excessive by a society that actively engages in piracy.Piracy has, but even the copyright holders are beginning to accept the new piracy-based industry. Some artists have already taken a firm stand and are attempting to fight against this illegal sharing, but others are embracing and adapting to the new industry.

“Piracy is the unauthorized use or reproduction of another’s work”, this is according to the Oxford Dictionary which specifically describes what piracy is all about. From this, we can safely say that piracy is an illegal act and is punishable by law of most, if not all, countries from all over the world. According to a website called  The Economic Times, you are committing piracy when you’re duplicating  copyrighted works and profit from them as they are being sold at a substantially low price. It is to suit the general public’s taste and not to mention their budgets in the ‘grey’ market. Especially in today’s Digital Age where technology is continuing to grow more easier to use and access, comes piracy getting more rampant than before as both are connected in some ways to each other. Although there are already enough if not many laws passed both nationally and international level, there are still people willing break to these laws and continue to make piracies. These are specially noticed in the film and music industries, which often are costly for some people that is why they’re buying the pirated versions of these film and music. 

Piracy, from the word itself brings chaos to the people. One of the biggest drawbacks that the virtual community has to face. It is the act of stealing; and disturbing copyrighted content digitally without permission, such as music, video games, software; and other content that is made by hardworking people, it's popularity grew alongside with the internet. Piracy and it's significant negative correlation between profit and free content disturbs the equilibrium of peace within the virtual community. Less profits means less money to invest in software, music, movies etc, reducing sales, because of piracy and stolen profits many people lost their jobs and struggles to support their family, unethical actions must not be put into practice in order for us civilization to advance, having reduce the amount of money means reducing the amount of investment to developing new products which is why it's considered a disadvantage to the virtual society. 

The online piracy is one of the common issue that existing in our society nowadays. Copying and owning the ideas and information of others without the real owner's permission can be called as an illegal act. Piracy refers to unauthorized duplication of copyrighted content, the legal act of duplicating, copying, or sharing a digital work without the permission of the copyright holder, a violation of copyright law. It was stealing, if you are caught to copying and distributing illegal copies of information, software, or to the internet, you could be held liable under both civil and criminal law. Copyright owners worry that the bill will leave the online service providers without any responsibility for policing their own networks. 

Piracy is an act of robbery, stealing or copying  a movie  and selling it at a much lower price to a certain buyers. All these activity causes a lot of problems not the consumers but rather from the producers. common form of piracy is shown in the DVD's we see in our markets , All these activity causes a lot of problems not the consumers but rather from the producers. Uploading of shows and movies through via online. All of these affects every single working person in the industries  negatively by having  less money to invest in new software . that cause people lost there work and struggle financially due to stolen profits and less money to invest.   Intellectual property protection is critical to fostering innovation. Without protection of ideas, businesses and individuals would not reap the full benefits of their inventions and would focus less on research and development. SCENARIO 2: A professor has posted his class notes on a web page available to the public. He wants to scan an article from a copyrighted journal and add it to his web page. FAIR USE? No, if access is open to the public, then this use is probably not a fair use. No exclusively educational purpose can be guaranteed by putting the article on the web, and such conduct would arguably violate the copyright holder's right of public distribution. If access to the web page is restricted, then it is more likely to be fair use. 

An economist called Zhang Yimou, "Piracy has ruined the domestic economy." If someone installs and uses proprietary programs without paying for a program, the software is deemed "piracy. A lot of the world was seeking to gain control of trade networks, and targeting competition around the sea was a common practice. In the World of the Internet, the alternative cases of piracy increase year by year through the help of digital technology because this is due to all users having the privilege or power to steal someone’s work and technically own it. There is an effect of piracy in which most citizens of every country can lose their job in the cause of piracy and embezzled financial gain will have difficulty for the means to support their families. There’s a lot of examples of piracy , downloading a copyrighted song off the Internet is a good example of it. The disadvantages of privacy are the theft of personal information, spamming, and virus threats. When using the internet they can get information from many people. Even people may think that they are safe just because of privacy, don't be too dependent on it. Just be aware and be safe from any kind of threat.

Online piracy has a big impact on the Internet. Unauthorized reproduction, distribution or a copyrights is widespread in the internet and spreading stolen or filmed materials such as pirated movies, illegal software, only on cinema movies, music and entertainment. Because of it the companies, movie creators, music industry and other digital materials lose billions of income every year because of this piracy industry. Every rising industry has hindrance to its progress. So as the film industry's relationship with piracy, the rival of their dynasty. Piracy happens when a theft recorded one film being shown to cinemas and mass produced its copies to the public. This is a contrary to the wants of the film industries. Piracy is a great enemy to their productions as it is stealing their film without their consent, the thefts are earning money through this while the producers are having problems with the decrease of the sales they get from their film. Piracy is a great hindrance as its demand increases proportionally on how interesting and more awaiting a certain film is.

Having a pirated version of a film, is a threat to the rising progress of the film industry. Piracy however is a blessing to those who can't afford to buy themselves a ticket to watch the film, despite of the unclear visuals caused by the factors while recording the film many people are interested and is investing in piracy. Piracy is indeed illegal to any place in the world, this is related to stealing someone's property for their own benefits, but still it has more demands and is currently supplied every time a film is shown. There are certain penalties for those who committed piracy, but it is never enough to stop the piracy that is happening in our country. Despite those that are caught by the law,  there are still many out there, hungry for money, committing such risky crimes. Every light has darkness, it should maintain equilibrium. So as in the case of the film industry, there should always be piracy as long as it exists.